My clients are late, their phone is disconnected and I’m in markham. I do not have access to the usual “eval writing distractions” that are necessay to blowing off steam (Twitter, gtalk, music).
Oh well. I still have my coffee.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Crossing the Nerd Wall: Seriously, Keep Reading
Since setting up WTTRP, I’ve tried to keep a wall between WoW Nerd stuff and Old Fashioned Nerd stuff. I planned on changing that in the near future, as I’ve planned to put up some fiction I’ve been working on. I’m breaking the wall early to show how to stick up for someone via the internets.
My friend Anna has two blogs: one for WoW one for Not Wow. She’s helped me with baking, we’ve bounced ideas off each other for writing things (blog posts, fiction, political stuff) and she sent me delicious Christmas cookies. She shared me a link, now deleted, about an event that was supposed to take place in game. In short, this event was going to target people “bad RPers with other RP.”
Folks, this is just bullying other people. If you don’t like something, or someone, on a video game you ignore them. You don’t go around mocking them.
Instead of writing a passive aggressive blog post, kvetching or just letting it lie there, Anna took that post to task. As of this writing, aside from one consistent troll, she’s made a pretty positive impact on the nerd community. She took on the nastiness with a well written post that didn’t devolve into name calling, cursing or spitting. That’s how you defend people on the internets: Passionately and with grace.
Chief Justice Roberts ‘Troubled’ by Scene at the State of the Union – ABC News
via Chief Justice Roberts ‘Troubled’ by Scene at the State of the Union – ABC News.
Roberts said Tuesday that he was “very troubled” by the “setting, circumstance and decorum” of the State of the Union speech, where justices are forced to sit expressionless while Congress “literally surrounds them,” at times cheering and hollering.
Six of the nine justices of the Supreme Court were sitting in the audience, and the cameras captured Justice Samuel Alito shaking his head in disagreement when Obama said, “With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates.”
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A Judge is supposed to be impartial. Given that a Supreme Court Justice is the epitome of the Judicial Branch, they should exemplify this behavior. Its they’re goddamn job to be professional when others are “cheering, hollering” or applauding.
If a justice applauded when Obama talked about Health Care Reform, he or she would be lambasted by the Right. I have no doubt in my mind that Chief Justice Roberts would lead that charge. His complaint about “the decorum” is utter and total bullshit.
Number 1 and Number 3
Number one search term to my blog: Unicorn
Number THREE Search term to my blog: Unicorn Sex
If you’re googling Unicorn Sex, you’re a deviant.
Ideas
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what defines people. I am hesitant to say that behaviors completely define a person, yet they play a rather large part in it. I would be more than willing to say that our thoughts and attitudes define us, and then I remember some of my social psych classes and I rethink that idea.
One part attitude, one part thoughts, one part behaviors. That’s the best I could come up with. I don’t have anything particularly illuminating to add to this discussion. \
At least, not yet.
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